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Psalm 89:12
You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
10You have broken Rahab in pieces, like one of the slain. You have scattered your enemies with your mighty arm.
11The heavens are yours. The earth also is yours, the world and its fullness. You have founded them.
12You have created the north and the south. Tabor and Hermon rejoice in your name.
13You have a mighty arm. Your hand is strong, and your right hand is exalted.
14Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before your face.
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North and south widen the horizon of praise, while Tabor and Hermon become mountains pictured as rejoicing in the name of their Creator.
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Psalm 98:8Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.Both psalms picture mountains expressing joy, making the landscape part of the language of praise.
Psalm 89:16In your name they rejoice all day. In your righteousness, they are exalted.Rejoicing in God's name links the mountains in verse 12 with the people described in verse 16.
Joshua 19:22The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.The shared name is Tabor, appearing in Joshua's border description and in the psalm's praise of the Creator.
Judges 4:12They told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.Tabor is the mountain Barak ascends in Judges and one of the mountains pictured rejoicing in the psalm.
Joshua 12:1Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the …Hermon marks the extent of conquered land in Joshua and appears as a rejoicing mountain in the psalm.
Job 26:7He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.Both texts mention the north while describing God's power over the created world.
Judges 4:6She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go and lead the way to …Mount Tabor links Deborah's words about Barak's command with the psalm's picture of mountains rejoicing in God's name.
Jeremiah 46:18“As I live,” says the King, whose name is the LORD of Armies, “surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so he will come.Both texts name Tabor among mountains, though Jeremiah uses it in a comparison and the psalm pictures it rejoicing.
Deuteronomy 3:8–9We took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon.Hermon appears as a boundary of land taken in Deuteronomy and as a mountain rejoicing in the psalm.
Psalm 133:3like the dew of Hermon, that comes down on the hills of Zion; for there the LORD gives the blessing, even life forever more.Both psalms name Hermon in their poetry, one describing its rejoicing and the other its dew.
Deuteronomy 3:9(The Sidonians call Hermon Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir.)Deuteronomy records other names for Hermon, the mountain pictured rejoicing in God's name in Psalm 89.
Joshua 11:3to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the …Both passages name Hermon; Joshua locates the Hivites beneath it, while the psalm pictures the mountain rejoicing.
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Your praise joins a song pictured on a vast scale: even Tabor and Hermon rejoice in God's name. The world you inhabit belongs to its Creator.
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